35. Buy and build the Tower Bridge Lego

So, I guess you're probably wondering why I am posting a blog about this considering I completed this years ago. Well, since buying and building Tower Bridge, I've got a little obsessed with Lego and have bought and built a number of other things. One project in particular has been a Lego street.

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine was a Lego Ideas set that I had actually voted for and it came into fruition. Matheus got it for me one Christmas as he knew I love Lego.

We all live in a Yellow Submarine...

The Fab Four

I saw the next set and thought it would be awesome - didn't realise how big it was going to be though. It's the Saturn V from the Apollo 11 mission.

The Saturn V Rocket

Apollo Lunar Module - with 2 astronauts for accuracy

The Command Module

This was another Lego Ideas set that I was drawn to - the Lego Ship in a Bottle. It was super clever to build and it has a pretend compass underneath. This sits atop my electric piano.

Message in a bottle...no, it's a ship

The tulip and the daisy below were a set but the other flower I got as a free gift when I spent over a certain amount.

A cute little set of flowers

I got both of the dogs below as free gifts. The dog on the right was supposed to represent the "Year of the Dog" in 2018. I wonder what the 2019 "Year of the Pig" will look like. I got the pug dog for me and managed to get a cheeky one for Lexie too. It was a 3-in-1 set but I thought the dog was the cutest. The other animals were a koala and a turkey.

Living a dog's life

Because Matheus and I met at a Back to the Future Secret Cinema event, I saw this Lego Dimensions set and couldn't resist. However, it only gave instructions on how to put Marty McFly together...come on...like I couldn't figure that out. From looking at the box I managed to figure out the hoverboard but the DeLorean I couldn't quite figure out. You needed to get a separate Lego Dimensions box and do some other stuff. I thought to myself, do I really need to do all of this just to put this small set together. Then I thought...YOUTUBE...I Googled for instructions and there they were the Lego Dimensions video step-by-step instructions.

Great Scott!!!

Lego released a number of Brickheadz over the last few years from Disney to Marvel to The Simpsons but when they released this DC Superhero, I knew I needed to add it to my collection of Lego - Wonder Woman - the title of a song I wrote.

I wish I was Wonder Woman so I could deflect the arrows from Cupid's bow

A year or so later Lego released Marty and Doc from Back to the Future as a whole set so naturally I had to purchase.

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit

I bought the '365 Things To Do With Lego Bricks' book and came across a Lego Bride and Groom and thought it would be amazing to make them for the top of our wedding cake in July. I figured out the feet up to the neck but couldn't work how to do the heads. I tweeted and emailed Lego and I tweeted the builders listed in the book but had no response. I decided to email the publishers and they responded quickly AND managed to send me the instructions. I bought all the pieces online and built them. They looked amazing on our Lego-themed wedding cake but they also look super in our glass cabinet.

Me and Matheus in Lego

I found a site called MiniFigs.me and created minifigures of me and Matheus. These also found their way onto the wedding cake. They are now embedded in my Lego street.

Matheus and me - happy as can be

Our wedding cake - made by Skevi from The Bubble Bakers

Below are various Lego wedding sets. The middle set was a leaving gift from my old work friends to wind me up that Matheus (then my boyfriend) still hadn’t proposed to me! The left was a gift to myself after the proposal and the right was a wedding gift from another friend.

On my birthday in October last year I went out with my Mum and decided to spend my birthday money on the first part of my street - Assembly Square. In November, I decided to treat myself to the Diner.

The makings of a good street

My friend, David, got me the Women of NASA set, below. Pretty cool little set.

Girl power on a whole other level

For Christmas, Matheus managed to get hold of one of the buildings that was going to expire that he knew I wanted - The Detective's Office. However, as we were spending Christmas in The Netherlands, I wasn't going to be able to build this until I got back, which I did straight away. While I was in The Netherlands I was searching to see if there were any expired buildings I'd missed and I came across the Palace Cinema. I messaged the seller and said I lived locally and could collect when we got back from the wedding we were going to in the Cotswolds between Christmas and New Year. He accepted my offer and I collected it and built it right before New Year's Eve.

The Detective Office, above the pool hall, next door Al's Barbers

I'd love to get stickers for Lego Movie and Lego Batman Movie for the windows
Lego Movie 2 out next month

This is how the street looks as a whole street:

Great looking street

The sets below are also Christmassy ones. I bought the Nutcracker soldier because it was reduced and the other sets I got free.

The Nutcracker

It's a wrapped present which turns into a living room when you take off the lid

As I'm a Lego VIP, I got the item below when I bought one of my buildings. It's supposed to be a mini Lego Store. There is a slightly larger Lego Store I've had my eye on.

Just last week I was Googling Lego and I noticed a pizza van on Amazon so I ordered that and it's now sitting at the end of my street. There's a little space at the end - perhaps another building? Lego just need to release another!

So, it's safe to say I'm a little obsessed with Lego - don't even get me started on Minifigures. I've bought so many "'build your own' Minifigures for my street.

Let's see what Lego fun the rest of 2019 will bring.

Do you have any exciting Lego sets?